Recount Text Exercises

What is recount text?

• A text that describe about something or someone specifically

• A text which retells events or experiences in the past

• A text that tells a story that has a series of chronologically connected events

• A text that explains or helps us how to make or use something.

What is the purpose of recount text?

• to retell about past events

• to inform the readers about a newsworthy events

• to entertain the readers with amusing story

• to explain how something can be done

The followings are kinds of recount text, except …..

• Personal Recount

• Factual Recount

• Imaginative Recount

• Procedural Recount

What are the Generic Structures of Recount Text?

• Introduction, Series of Events, Conclusion

• Orientation, Complication, Resolution

• Orientation, Series of Events, Re-orientation

• Orientation, Events, Conclusion

Which part of structures of the Recount Text that tells a personal comment about the event or what happened in the end?

• Introduction

• Orientation

• Conclusion

• Re-orientation

The followings are characteristics of recount text, except …..

• focus on specific participant

• using action verbs

• using chronological connections

• using simple present tense

Last Saturday, we woke up very early in the morning. My mother and I prepared breakfast quickly. Then, we had breakfast together. After that, we started our journey to Bandungan.

What is the part of recount text above?

• Orientation

• Introduction

• Series of events

• Re-orientation

Time sequence used in recount text is …..

• Once upon a time

• Last week

• Next week

• A long time ago

The followings are examples of Recount Text, except …..

• The Crying Stone

• My Holiday in Bali

• My Grandpa’s Funeral in Toraja

• My Unlucky Day

Which one of the followings is an example of Historical Recount?

• A Total Solar Eclipse

• The Fall of The Berlin Wall

• My Grandpa’s Hometown

• A Nightmare